So….
this weekend was for a voluntary work at local mountain in Hadano, Kanagawa Pref.

It’s like,If you wanna play, you gotta take good care of the playground.

which means,If you wanna have fun in the mountain which gives you the enjoyment and excitement, you better take great care of them as well, MTB riders!

looks easy but it’s not THAT easy!

walked up the hill the started clearing there

Bamboo

So,
we went to help taking care of the mountain.

Actually it was FUN.
We left home around 6am, got there 8am, spent a few hours in the morning raking the entire hill and bamboo lumbering.

Oh, by the way, I heard the purpose of this raking is to get rid of leeches.
… LEECHES !!!
Seriously, I’ve only seen leeches in the movie “Speed2: Cruise Control(1997)” and NEVER in real!
So, kinda wanted to see the gross creature last summer but I had no chance.
DAMN! 🙂

Anyway, after all the job, the local ladies brought us some food.

Soup with some potatoes, daikon, carrot and etc. Yummy

Rice cooked with salted local cherry blossoms called yaezakura

Well, of course after the volunteering we went for a ride!

jounced and bounced !

Just a short one around there called “Cow Neck”.
F*ckin steep no-rest-point uphill nearly killed me but it was only a short course, we rode around twice until sunset.

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About mtbtokyogirl

Hey, I'm a super happy tokyo girl just started MTB for 6 months. other than MTB, I love traveling around southwest US and Hawaii, love run and swim, food, cooking, music.
Just PLAY HARD as much as you can,
and RIDE TOUGH enough to feel you are COOL
and EAT a LOT!!!!
That's how I enjoy my life now!!

People used to take care of the forest and rake up well so it was not wet and no leeches could survive there but now nobody take good care of the forest so it got darken and they started growing the numbers!!!